Neyer's picks are not as bad as Gomez, but they embody a mistake that is typical of the breed. Seriously, hat are the chances that Clay Buchholtz wins Rookie of the Year and the Sox don't even make the play-offs? Or that Becket is Cy Young and the Sox don't make the play-offs, which is where Kevin Kennedy (that pompous jackass) came out? The picks are usually intellectually dishonest: picking the favorite gets you no attention; picking a long-shot does. So you make an off-beat pick. If you are right, you wave your pick around at the end of the Series to show how smart you were. If you were wrong, nobody remembers, and you keep quiet; it doesn't even hurt your reputation. I forget how many straight times Gammons picked the Jays as his "sleeper," but it got to be a joke. Neyer picked against the Sox in last year's play-offs; he was pretty negative about them all season.I think he's mad that the Sox hired Bill James instead of him...